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Links:
Wildlife
The National
Wildlife Federation has created an extremely cool searchable wildlife database.
It allows you to search by critter or even lists the wildlife in your area.
A photo and fairly detailed description of each animal is provided: For
the Sierra Biozone and The
eNature.com guides to plants and wildlife.
Mammals
Species
List of Sierra Mammals A fairly good list of mammals of the
Sierra with some links to more information about an animal.
California Bighorn Sheep Foundation Recently
listed as endangered.
Mountain
Lions
Carnivores U.C.
Berkeley carnivores web site
Rodents U.C.
Berkeley rodent web site
Fisher From
the Center for Biological Diversity's application seeking endangered
status with USF&W for the Fisher. A good paper on range and status
of the Fisher (PDF format).
Reptiles & Amphibians
Mountain Yellow Legged Frog This
site is intended to provide info on the natural history and conservation
of the mountain yellow-legged frog, and is written in such a way as
to make the information accessible to the educated public.
Vance Vredenburg's Site Herpatology
with links to other herp. sites.
Amphibia Web Amphibia Web
is an online resource for people concerned with the declining amphibian
problem.
Salamander
Feeding Movies This is way cool. Long tongues flap! Bugs go
zap!
Sierra Nevada Aquatic
Research Lab SNARL provides a modern laboratory and experimental
stream complex that promotes and encourages scientific research all year
long.
Birds
Audubon Society
Bird
Calls North American Bird Sounds
Field
Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada Project
Grace Bell Bird Call Collection
More
Bird Calls
Naturesongs.com Good
collection of bird songs.
Identify and Report
Dead Birds suspected suspected of dying of West Nile
Virus (State of California website).
Report Wildlife
Observations
iNaturalist.org will
help you keep track of the plants and animals
you see with the use of species lookup, field journals, timelines,
and automatic life lists (or park lists, town lists, county lists, year
lists...).
This site is not expected to be up and running until May of
2008, but check in with it occasionally.
Ken-ichi
Ueda of the UC Berkeley School of Information (and co-designer of iNaturalist.org)
has put together a pretty good list of bookmarks of critter-oriented
web sites.
Sierra Nevada Network Inventory and Monitoring Program The Sierra Nevada Network (SIEN) is comprised of Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Devils Postpile National Monument. Along with all 270 national parks participating in this inventory and monitoring effort, the Sierra Nevada Network has begun a long-term plan to:
SNEP Report The
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP) is an assessment of the Sierra
Nevada ecoregion which was requested by Congress in 1992. SNEP also
broadly evaluates an entire set of Sierra Nevada ecosystems, including
their social, economic, and ecological components.
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem
Project Map/Data Site This SNEPMap/Data web site has been
created in response to the recognized need for improved access to data
files, records, digital data.
GIS
Data Maps of the Sierra from the SNEP Report
Mono
Basin Clearinghouse An
excellent source for research reports and updates on the progress of restoring
Mono Lake.Many links to other Sierra resources and GIS Data.
Mono Lake Web Site Good selection
of natural history books; history and progress of restoring Mono Lake to
it's pre-diversion ecology; research article on Mono Basin AND current
temperature and lake level.
Central
Sierra Environmental Resources Center CSERC
defends 2,000,000 acres of the central region of the Sierra Nevada against
a wide range of environmental threats.
Biology
of the Sierra Nevada From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
A very good overview of the Sierra's biology and ecology.
USGS
Western Ecological Research Center Excellent site for research papers
on global climate change and biodiversity. Now includes a new feature: Ask
An Expert! Send your questions to WERC scientists.
California Biodiversity
Council formed in 1991 to improve coordination and cooperation
between the various resource management and environmental protection
organizations at federal, state, and local levels.
Center for Biodiversity Protecting
endangered species and wild places through science, policy, education,
and environmental law.
Kaweah Oaks Reserve A nature
preserve whose primary purpose is to save the valley oaks and surrounding
native plant and wildlife communities that are our natural heritage here
in Tulare County, California.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National
Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Association
Sequoia and Kings Canyon Natural
History Association
Devil's Postpile National
Monument
Inyo
National Forest
Sequoia
National Forest
Eastern Sierra Forum & Links
Sierra Foothill Conservancy a
land trust dedicated to the preservation of open space and traditional
land uses threatened by the rapid urbanization in the foothills of Fresno
and Madera Counties
Ecology of
the Northern Sierra Nevada Some good links and information about
the natural history of the Sierra. Bird, plant and animal lists of species.
Links to geology sites.
UC Berkeley
Links to Natural History Education Sites
UC Berkeley
Online Collections On-line collection catalogs of interest to natural
historians. Many of these lists also include on-line keys, image databases,
checklists, bibliographies, and so on.
CalPhoto Online database
of plant & animal photos.
California's
Plants and animals DF&G database of photos of California plants & animals.
On-line Wildlife
Research Publications Online publications of the USDA Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Arcata,
CA.
Geology
USGS & NPS
Geology of Yosemite From general intoduction to technical mapping
of structures.
Aerial
Geologic Tours of the Sierra photo array of several important geologic
structures in the Sierra. Dr. Allen Glazner has also produced several
animated graphics of the migration — from the northeast
and trending towards the Sierra — of volcanic activity over
the last 60 thousand years. It's a pretty neat movie, though takes
awhile to load.
Independence
Dike Swarm If you've read James Moore's Exploring
the Highest Sierra, you've read about this intrusion
throughout the central Sierra. A geologic feature with it's
own web site is kind of cool...
Maps & Data
California Spatial Information
Library (CaSIL) Provides DRG maps for all of California through its
interactive Map
Interface.
An excellent source of topo maps for both recreational use and for GIS
mapping projects.
California
Gap Analysis The California Gap Analysis Project is publishing
a CD-ROM to provide you with a handy way to obtain the entire GIS database,
final report, and an interactive atlas of California's biodiversity.
Center for Biological Diversity Protecting
endangered species and wild places of western North America and the Pacific
through science, policy, education, and environmental law.
Sequoia and Kings
Canyon Natural Resources Management Information about the Inventory & Monitoring
programs of Yosemite, Devils Postpile and Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Species
lists and overviews.
The
Sierra Bioregion, an overview
Nature Net National Park
Service database of park resources and science projects.
Geographic Information Systems An explanation
of GIS and links to data sets from ESRI, publishers of the GIS software
ArcView.
GIS data for
northern California and other useful GIS-related links
GIS Data Sets Public
Domain (mostly)
The Southern Sierra
Geographic Information Cooperative (SSGIC) is funded by the Joint
Fire Science Program and is focused on developing and testing an approach
to incorporate wildland fuels information management into an interagency,
landscape-scale planning framework. It's also possible to design and
download USGS digital topo and aerial maps of much of the southern Sierra,
with a number of database overlays.
Environmental
Education and History
Yosemite National Institutes Begun in Yosemite 30 years ago, YI has expanded
to several campuses in California and Washington. They have great environmental
education courses for teachers and schools.
CREEC The California Regional Environmental
Education Community (CREEC) Network is an educational project whose mission
is:To develop a communication network which provides educators with access
to High Quality environmental education resources to enhance the environmental
literacy of California Students. Searchable by subject or county.
The Yosemite
Web
An excellent source for online text of books, old documents and maps of Yosemite.
Also links to lodging and accomadation in the Yosemite area.
